Rapid Response Teams: What do you thing about it?

Rapid Response Teams: Ready for Prime Time?, by Bob Wachter

Rapid response teams saves lives, but is it good medicine?

What do you thing about RRT's?

Cutting down medication mistakes and problems

Watch full conference: http://unisimers.com.br/videos/index.php?palestra=399

When hospitalists stay longer, patients leave sooner

Researchers, led by Kenneth R. Epstein, FACP, now chief medical officer for Hospitalist Consultants, Inc. (HCI), found that as fragmentation increased, length of stay did, too. Dr. Epstein recently spoke with ACP Hospitalist about the study's results, problems with handoffs, and pros and cons of block schedules.

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Evidense BIASed Medicine

Suggestion of a very good activity that we made in POA and you could see it online: http://www.unisimers.com.br/videos/?palestra=353

Below an interview with the speaker (almost everything in English):

Interview with Bob Wachter

Dr. Robert Wachter: Helping Health Care Get Well

Healthy Lifestyles: Hospitalist 1/5/11

Must a hospitalist abandon all the ambulatorial practice?

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Jamie Newman Award

PASHA2010 Competition: abstracts were selected to compete for the Prof. James Newman Award.

Experiences in the use o hospitalists among countries from Latin America had been evaluated and the winner was the Chilean Experience. Three abstracts had been chosen for oral presentation as final stage of the competition and the others two were from Brazil. The experiences from Santa Izabel Hospital (Blumenau) and Santa Isabel Hospital (Salvador) received a Honorable Mention.

How Is The Hospitalist Way Of Life?

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Neil Winawer speaks about HM at the PASHA2010

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